2016

Announcement of the 2016 Mary E. V. McClanahan Graduate Essay Prize Summary: Classics Graduate students are invited to submit essays to be judged by a committee of three faculty members. The writer of the essay judged to be the best will receive $1,500 and will present his or her essay...

Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature Forcing college kids to ignore the liberal arts won't help them in a competitive economy. Article from The Washington Post by Steven Pearlstein Find the full article here

Congratulations to the 2016 Dwyer Translation Prize Winnners! This year's Dwyer Latin Translation Prize Winner is Susan Niederhoff, Astrophysics major and Classics minor. Susan won the prize for her translation of lines 390-405 of Book 9 of Vergil's Aeneid . This year's Dwyer Greek Translation Prize Winner is Classics major...

Dimitri Nakassis Elected to ASCSA Committee Dimitri Nakassis, Associate Professor of Classics, has been elected to the Information Technology Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the 2016-2021 term. Congratulations Dimitri!

Rome and the Hellenistic World

Book by CU Classics scholar finds gendered subversion in Athenian festival of Adonis.